Royster tapped to succed Fisher in Greenville

The Greenville Board of Education voted last night to hire deputy superintendent Burke Royster to succeed retiring Superintendent Phinnize "Penny" Fisher as leader of South Carolina's largest school district.

In a split vote, Royster edged out Lynn Moody of Rock Hill and Eugene White of Indianapolis, Indiana.

The process to reach this decision was long and presumably intense, as the board met

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Greenville board has adjourned without decision

News comes from Greenville tonight that after a day-long debate among school board members over the selection of a new superintendent, the board adjourned at 11 p.m. without a decision.

And it appears that a decision by Rock Hill school administrators to hold classes during last year's Martin Luther King Jr Day has emerged as an issue in the public discussion, if not the private one.

This

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Greenville finalists White, Royster, Moody profiled

Biographical sketches were published this week by the Greenville News of the three finalists to succeed Dr. Phinnize "Penny" Fisher, retiring superintendent of Greenville County Schools.

I caught the sketches of two -- Lynn Moody of York County and Burke Royster of Greenville -- but didn't see the sketch of Dr. Eugene G. White of Indianapolis, Indiana. I found his biography online, however, at

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